Sentence examples for earn the affection from inspiring English sources

This time, Bourne would earn the affection that the audience felt for him.

The same is true of movies, and this one, anarchic and occasionally slipshod as it may be, was made with enough care to earn the affection of its fans.

This story about Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes), a Maori girl battling to earn the affection of her grandfather -- he believes that this female child has ended the magical fate of his bloodline -- is one of the few films that young audiences could be taken to without blindfolds.

It takes a while to earn the affection of a child -- and some of the things you have to do to earn it (or to play with them), well, they take patience too.

But if you survey Republican consultants, the expectations are that he simply can't occupy the stage built for him -- whether by the press or his own advisers -- and that the speed at which he is launching a national campaign simply doesn't allow him to earn the affection of voters.

"To the best of our belief... someone who lacks courage, or uses a won't-commit-myself approach, or doesn't dare stake his life with a smile, would be better off not even trying to win a real woman's heart," Vincent wrote to Theo in 1881, when he was trying to earn the affections of his young cousin Kee Vos.

Shake up the teaching profession and Ms Bachelet will have earned the affection she widely inspires.

Behind his gruff, rude manner was a gruff, rude man, albeit one who earned the affection of some colleagues.

She worked here for fifty-four years, most of them as its Grammarian (a title invented for her), and she earned the affection and gratitude of generations of writers.

In the past year, the archbishop has earned the affection of many priests who bristled under the sometimes peremptory style of Cardinal Egan.

An anchor at WNBC since 1980, Ms. Simmons earned the affection of New Yorkers, initially on the long-running "Live at Five" program in the 1980s and 1990s, and on Wednesday some of them wanted an explanation from the station.